David Fincher.

Purely because his films are impeccable (bar alien or whatever) and diverse with a sort of - I guess you could call it grit - to them that make his style so strong yet subtle at the same time.



This scene is the first (and only) scene/film that made me cry.
FOUR FOR YOU GLEN COCO YOU GO GLEN COCO.

Swoon.

Swoon is an American street artist that studied at Pratt. She leaves her art all around the world and has a tendency to depict people in her images. 

My friend showed me her book the other day and very appropriately described her work as being almost "painfully pretty". Her work is really great to look at in real life - thus the beauty of street art - or in something like a book because the intricacies of her work aren't done justice on a computer screen (you can only sort of see them when they're thumbnail size) her layers and textures are really beautiful and I feel like every time I look at an image I get something new out of it. 

 (Marissa this is the street artist I said you might like in crit (:  )

Dr. Seuss.

Final blog posts. I'm not sure if we were meant to do them this week but I figured I would (just in case) thanks for this semester you guyzzz, I'll see you not next semester but the semester after that (most likely... We'll see) :)

You all know who Doctor Seuss is (I hope) but a lot of people don't realise that he is an amazing artist outside of the picture book art that we know. This painting is one of my most favourite pictures ever. I first saw it (really randomly) in a shopping centre display when I was about thirteen, I stared at it for the time that my Mum went into a store, bought stuff and came out - I liked everything about it and loved it even more once I read the title; 'Free bird'.

I encourage you to go read your favourite Doctor Who book (if it's in reach).

Gjon Mili

Gjon Mili is an Albanian photographer most famous for his portraits of artists (including Pablo Picasso) I found his work interesting because of his work with light painting and flash photography. I love the homage he did to Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase". He was, without a doubt, one of the pioneers of long exposure photography.

Emile Hyperion Dubuisson

 I'll admit, Emile Hyperion Dubuisson was initially interesting to me solely because of his extremely unique name. I am still quite fascinated by his impressive moniker, but I have garnered a strong fondness for his photographs. They depict form, much like my own work, but he makes the decision to leave most of the frame empty, and the end result is very impressive to me. Check his stuff out!

Barbara Morgan

Barbara Morgan was a photographer in the 1930s and 40s. She was well known for her work with both light painting and dance photography. Naturally, her subject matter intrigued me, and I began to explore some of her work. At the time, many of her photomontage pieces were received less than enthusiastically in North America. I have posted some of her pictures, but see more here: a website

David Terrazas

David Terrazas is a professional portrait, fashion, and travel photographer based in Thailand. I'm definitely in love with all of his work, especially the first one in this set. I enjoy his use of color, line, and playfulness with light. Check out more of his work here: http://www.davidterrazasphotography.com/

Tomoki Momozono

Tomoki Momozono's work is probably one of my more better finds recently. It's almost like a journalistic approach meets fashion. Right now, Momozono is doing this interesting series entitled, "Punk Rocker." It's definitely an odd collection of works, but it gets my attention. Check out MOARRRR: http://momozonophotography.com/portfolio/

Doug McGoldrick

Meet Doug McGoldrick. I like his work because it's more journalistic, and his ideas are interesting, but the execution is a bit lacking, and he can't spell. Nevertheless, I think his work is definitely something to check out: www.dougphoto.com

Formento ^2

Formento + Formento are a great duo, precisely crafting their images together. I think the main thing I like about their works are the amount of attention to detail. To see more of their work: www.formento2.com

Michael Schlegel

This is Michael Schlegel's work, which consists of mostly black and white images capturing all types of nature shots as well as some architecture. Similar to an earlier post about photographer, Garmonique, I enjoy the more melancholic theme to these photographs as well as the high amount of contrast in each one. View more of Michael Schlegel's work here: http://www.michaelschlegel.com/

Matthieu Belin

This is Matthieu Belin's work. His online portfolio consists mostly of portraits and fashion work, but most, if not all, of his work has this amazing story-telling element to it. It reminded me of my first critique when Shane mentioned that there's even a deeper meaning to most fashion photography. I also enjoy the color in his photographs as well. Check out more of his work here: http://www.matthieubelin.com/

Garmonique

Garmonique is definitely one of my more favorite photographers on Behance. There's no descriptions, biographical information, or anything else to find out more about him other than the fact that he's based in Moscow, Russia. I love his very lonely, melancholic feel to his photographs as well as his use of line and light. Check out more of his work: http://www.behance.net/garmonique

Wolfgang Tillmans (insert heart)

German born photographer who "takes pictures, in order to see the world," as spoken by the beautiful man himself.

He photographs a wide variety of subject matter and constantly changes the way his work is displayed. He keeps himself curious and awake with his medium, which he is constantly questioning. A lot of his work almost has a snapshot feel to it, something I've noticed in my own stuff, but the care taken in composing each shot and the intentionality of his display arrangements makes them more, and that coupling of intimacy and purpose makes me at least really think about the photographic image and the power of the personal camera.

Operating on the basis of the fundamental equality of all motifs and supports, through this continual re-arranging, repositioning, questioning and reinforcement, Tillmans avoids ascribing any ‘conclusions’ to his work and thus repeatedly subjects his own photographic vision to a perpetual re-contextualization.

thank you, wikipedia.

This is a man who really thinks about....everything, who never lets his mind settle, and that's really inspiring. If I could, I'd send you a billion more quotes of his, but instead I'll just give you his website link. <3ilovewolfgangtillmans.org<3

Here you are!

Rachel Whiteread

This artist works with the absence of space by making molds of the insides of objects and letting this usually ignored space exist tangibly. You guys probably learned/heard about her in AFO at some point, I just remembered how awesome I think this work is.

Her most famous piece is probably the giant concrete mold she did of the inside of a house:

Zeitguised (?)

I'm still unsure as to exactly who this artist(s) is (are?).....but I found this awesome series online, and I'm also not quite sure how it was done.... I know digital photography and manipulation was involved.........anyway I'll just include the lil description and see if you can decipher it. The images are just really mesmerizing and ....meta. 

Material sample interpretations as simulations of macroscopically photographed nano-sculptures. The base for these enlarged tiny grown crystal structures are textile pattern, with two different levels of translation. One is the layer of color, where a scan of the textile is taken directly to color individual parts of the structure. The second layer is a translation of fabric weavings into three dimensional stacks of interlocked platonic bodies. Both layers are in an uneasy, off-set relation with each other. On a meta level, the simulation of photographed space seduces to imagine this setup as an existing material reality.

But yeah, very design-oriented stuff. It really gets crazy when you zoom way in on these puppies.

This one is pretty awesome too, based on dust particles.

• Boolean Taxidermy
  Smart Dust: Shapes of Shapes
• Intelligent particles, the size of dust grains, are programmed to fill nonexistent shapes (the mathematical problem of geometry packing). The "know" their relative position inside the imaginary form (i.e. distance from hull or center) and take on a color relative to it.

Martin Hanford.

 I mean, if we are going to blog about artists that influenced our life, Martin Hanford deserves a hand from all of us. (If you didn't have Where's Wally (or American name "Where's Waldo" in your life I consider you officially deprived). 

If my life were a cartoon I feel like Martin Hanford would have to illustrate it. 

Chuck Palahniuk.

I know he isn't a visual artist but I figured why not throw in a writer.
For those of you who don't know who Chuck Palahniuk is - he wrote Fight Club.

I chose to put him in because I love that feeling when you have been thinking about something for a while and then a picture of a film (or in this case, a book) comes along and seems to resonate exactly with what you had been thinking about.

For quite a while lately I've been thinking about technology - in my life, in modern life, socially - and just questioning it in general (not necessarily in a negative light). The other day I began reading Chuck Palahniuk's book "Invisible Monsters Remix" and the first page brought up a lot of ideas etc. surrounding technology that I found really thought provoking:


"This is how old I am. I loved the Sears catalogue. It kills me that I now need to explain what that was. It was an inventory of everything you ever dreamed of owning. Imagine the entire Internet printed on paper and bound along one edge - a stack of glossy paper as thick as a telephone book. Please don't ask me what a telephone book was. By now you imagine I'm wearing a bowler hat and a celluloid collar, driving my horseless carriage, lickety-split, to a torrid three-way with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Abraham Lincoln.
As opposed to you, you who'll always stay so young and hip.
Be that as it may. This modern world isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nowadays, whatever purchase you moon over, whatever person you lust after, most likely it's presented on a smooth glass or plastic screen. Or a laptop or a television. And no matter what the technology, you'll catch sight of your own reflection. In that electric mirror, there hovers your faint image. You'll be superimposed over every email. Or, lurking in the glassy surface  of online porn, there you are. Fewer people shut down their computers anymore, and who can blame them? The moment that monitor goes black you're looking at yourself, not smiling, not anything. Here's your worst-ever passport photo enlarged to life size. Swimming behind the eBook words of Jane Austen, that slack, dead-eyed zombie face, that's yours. That's you."

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

Or just "Mert and Marcus" works, too. 

I first stumbled upon Mert and Marcus in 7/11 where their images of Kate Moss were on the front cover of some magazine: 

I really liked the use of colour and how the image was only taken sometime this year but almost feels like an image that was (or should have been taken) a few decades earlier.

Mert is from Turkey and Marcus is from Wales - Marcus was originally an assistant photographer and Mert was a fashion model. The two collaborated and on their first collaboration made the front cover of 'Dazed and Confused' magazine.

Holly Andres.

 I was going to tell you a little bit about what her main body of work consists of, but it turns out the bio on her website has sort of already hit the nail on the head:

"Holly Andres uses photography to examine the complexities of childhood, the fleeting nature of memory, and female introspection. Typically her images rely on a tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext. " 

I like Andres' images because of their highly evocative nature and the dark undertones that exist in her images, she takes normal situations and invites the viewer to look at them in a different light: 

hollyandres.com